A wedding is not house-keeping.

Emotion is always new and the word has always served; therein lies the difficulty of expressing emotion.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.